On the whole, my own site gets more hits from www.stumbleupon.com than anywhere else, mostly for my applets Resonata and Trochor. This only works if you have pages that people like so much that they actively want to share them with friends and random strangers, I suppose.
After that, Google accounts for far more of my traffic than any other site - around 10 times as many visitors as Yahoo, its nearest competitor. I do surprisingly well in searches on various terms (trigonometry, oolong, Fimo, fractal in a Google Image Search...) although so far the only one-word one I've noticed being number one hit for is ' curlicue'.
I'd be very curious to know whether other people get so much more traffic from Google than from other search engines; this article only gives around twice the volume for Google as it does for Yahoo, which in turn gets almost twice as many as MSN, but I'm seeing much greater differences than that, both for my own site and for the Edinburgh International Festival site which I maintain (again, more than a factor of 10 between Google and Yahoo - even though we seem to turn up higher in Yahoo's results).
I wonder if this could be partly a geographical thing - do more Americans than Europeans use Yahoo for searching, perhaps?
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